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                <p class="lead">To contribute to gRPC documentation, please fork the GitHub gRPC repository and start submiting pull requests.</p>
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                    <h2>Continue your edit</h2>

                    <p>Click the below link to edit the page you were just on. When you are done, press "Commit Changes" at the bottom of the screen. This will create a copy of our site on your GitHub account called a "fork." You can make other changes in your fork after it is created, if you want. When you are ready to send us all your changes, go to the index page for your fork and click "New Pull Request" to let us know about it.</p>

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                    <h2>Contribution guidelines for gRPC</h2>

                    <p>We welcome contributions to either of our three core repositories. <a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc">gRPC</a>, <a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java">gRPC Java</a> and <a href="https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go">gRPC Go</a>. </p>

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                    <h2>Contribution guidelines for gRPC Ecosystem</h2>

                    <p><a href="https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/">gRPC Ecosystem</a> is a different organization where we collect and curate valuable integrations of other projects with gRPC. You can propose a new project for it by filling up the <a hre="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/119zb79XRovQYafE9XKjz9sstwynCWcMpoJwHgZJvK74/edit">Propose new project form</a>.</p>

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                    <h2>Edit our site on github</h2>

                    <p>Click the below button to visit the repo for our site. You can then click the "Fork" button in the upper-right area of the screen to create a copy of our site on your GitHub account called a "fork." Make any changes you want in your fork, and when you are ready to send those changes to us, go to the index page for your fork and click "New Pull Request" to let us know about it.</p>

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                    <h2>Being a member of the gRPC organization on github</h2>
                    
                    <p>Being an organization member is not required for the vast majority of the contributions. Membership is required for certain administrative tasks such as accepting a pull request, or closing issues. If you wish to be part of the gRPC organization on github, please <a href="https://grpc.io/community/">get in touch with us</a>. Please note that in order to be part of the organization, your github account needs to have <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa/">two factor security enabled</a>.</p>
                    
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